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The Book: Eco-yards: Simple Steps to earth-friendly landscapes.

Eco-Yards, Book Cover Eco-yards™ - Simple steps to earth-friendly landscapes is now available as a Trade Paperback or an E-book.
Eco-yards™ is visionary, inspiring, hopeful, encouraging.

Here at last is a book for anyone who wants to use environmentally sound practices when they garden, whether in a residential yard or on the balcony of a condo or high-rise apartment. Its hopeful tone and clear, easy-to-follow instructions are truly inspiring—and completely practical! If you’re sick of the backyard battle, this book will show you how to work with nature to create a gorgeous and healthy result!

Topics covered include:

  • why sustainable, organic landscaping is so important
  • guidelines for designing an eco-yard
  • how to make your yard water-wise
  • simple soil science
  • how to replace your lawn with tree, shrub and flower beds
  • how to change your lawn to hardy, low-maintenance grass
  • earth-friendly maintenance tips

Size: 8.5" x 5.5, 236 pages. 16 colour pages.
ISBN: 978-0-9685327-4-4

Click here to view the Introduction & Preface (PDF)
Click here to view Chapter 1 - The Gardener (PDF)
Click here to view a how-to section (PDF)
Click here to view a science section (PDF)

Order your book today!

Paperback version - $29.95 Can plus shipping and in Canada - GST

E-book version - $25.95 Can plus (in Canada) - GST

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You can also order books by calling Laureen Rama at 403-969-1176 or 1-800-491-7738 with your VISA number. Or email: info@eco-yards.com for information on sending a money order.

Eco-yards is also available at many garden centres (ask your local garden centre to sell it!).

In Calgary, Eco-yards is available at:
Garden Centres: Bow Point Nursery, Edwards, Garden Retreat Centre, Spruce it Up, Sunnyside
Natural Grocery Stores: Amaranth, Community Natural Foods, Sunnyside Market
Independent Bookstores: Green Calgary Eco-store, Owl’s Nest, Pages, Self Connection, Westlands Gallery (Cochrane)

In Edmonton, Eco-yards is available at Greenwoods Bookstore

In Regina, Eco-yards is available at the Book & Brier Patch

In Manitoba, Eco-yards is available through Prairie Originals

"Laureen Rama has produced one of the finest books I have seen on how to garden in ways that restore the health of the soil and invite nature back into the landscapes where we live. Well-organized, thorough, entertaining, and packed with pertinent information, delightful stories, vivid photos, and instructive illustrations, Eco-yards is an instruction manual on how to return to garden and to the sensuous earth itself, where we have always belonged. Laureen's chapter on soil life alone makes this book worth
owning. If you have a square foot of soil where you can grow things, read this book and you will find yourself tending it with new care and spirit."

— Trevor Herriot, Author of River in a Dry Land, Jacob's Wound, and Grass, Sky, Song

"Laureen's creativity is apparent in the ideas and options she offers, that bubble alongside the main theme of her book. Her feng shui insights, for example, are delightful. Laureen's expertise and enthusiasm shine through on every page. This is the book that gardeners will be eagerly poring over, as they plan their beautiful eco-yards. Thank you for writing this book."
— Sandra Holy, Home Gardener

“Laureen is great at explaining information simply so that people understand it. She inspires people to take action!”
— Karen Morrison

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